I am about to do my first large table top glue ups - one that's 48'' x 48" x 2" and another that's 72'' x 24"' x 4" and need to need buy a bunch of clamps to make it happen. By my calculation, I need a dozen that are at least 48" long and another 6 that are at least 24" long. I plan to buy mostly pipe clamps because of the cost, but am willing to add a few dollars to make 4 or 6 of the clamps be parallel, bar, or F clamps just to have around for future use.
My question is what you would recommend as the most versatile types and sizes of clamps in this length. I am set with clamps 18" and shorter. My thought was to get one of those parallel clamp packages (2-24" and 2-50") and maybe two F or bar clamps, but don't know enough to know which type of clamps are the most versatile.
Thanks for the help
Steve